ADVISORY/Chicago Touts $5.3 Billion Meeting Industry; Mayor Richard Daley Joins Meeting Professionals International To Showcase Meetings as a Strategic Business Tool.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Tuesday Tuesday: see week. (Oct. 10) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Join Mayor Richard Daley Richard Daley may refer to:
Chicago (shĭkä`gō, shĭkô`gō), city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. corporate executives and industry experts to celebrate the power of meetings as a strategic business tool and the significant contribution meetings make to a company's bottom line. Chicago was chosen as the location to launch MPI's World Tour event since the city is home to 1,100 MPI meeting planners and plays host to more than 35,000 local conventions, meetings and trade shows generating $5.3 billion annually.
WHAT: -- Tribute to Chicago's $5.3 billion meetings industry
-- Interactive demonstrations to help stakeholders and
corporate executives understand the value and power
of meetings as a communications tool
-- Discussions regarding the significance of meetings as a
strategic business tool
WHO: Mayor Richard Daley, MPI leadership and industry experts
WHEN: Tuesday, October 10, 2000
11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Incentive Travel & Meeting Executives show
Grand Ballroom
McCormick Place
2301 S. Lake Shore Dr.
Media may check in at the VIP registration table
What is MPI? Meeting Professionals International (www.mpiweb.org), with more than 17,500 members in 64 countries with 59 chapters and five in formation, is the leading global community committed to shaping and defining the future of the meeting and event industry. Chicago is the first step on a worldwide tour designed to highlight the power of meetings. FOR MORE INFORMATION, OR FOR A MEDIA VIP PASS CONTACT: Kelly Schulz/Emily Wininger Edelman Ed·el·man , Gerald Maurice Born 1929. American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for research on the chemical structure and nature of antibodies. Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Worldwide 214/520-3555 kelly_schulz@edelman.com or emily_wininger@edelman.com |
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